Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 30 days ending 2008-04-30:
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Wednesday Apr 30 | ||
| Note | |
| Since April 2006, there have been 132 different people from REACH participate in a Street Scramble, totaling 219 starts. 28 people have attended 2 or more, and seven people 5 or more. | ||
| C • my write-up is here... 1 | ||
| Note | |
| found this today...
http://www.hightrekadventure.com/ seattle, july 12... thinking about it... | ||
Tuesday Apr 29 | ||
| Other 2:00:00 [2] | |
| I'm logging this as "other" because we played so poorly that I certainly can't log it as volleyball. Ugh. That's all there is to say about that. | ||
Monday Apr 28 | ||
| Softball 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Softball, first game of the season. We lost 17-10. Interesting stat: we scored in 6 of 7 innings, and they scored in only 3 of 6 innings (3 very big innings).
I pitched ok, given the weather conditions. It was super duper windy, which made pitching difficult. On the batting side, I was 3-for-3 with 2 RBI's and a double. Hitting kudos of the day go to Steve, as he had 5 RBI's, including a monster 3-run homer! | ||
| Softball 5:00 [2] | |
| Went to the batting cages before the softball game. I went through 3 rounds, which is probably 5 minutes worth? It was definitely enough to get a blister. I'm certainly glad that I went. It was the first time I'd swung a bat since September. I think if I had a softball nickname, it would be "first pitch" because I always swing at the first pitch. Even with the windy conditions, I only saw 3 pitches during 3 at-bats. | ||
Sunday Apr 27 | ||
| Street Scramble race 2:56:00 [4]** 14.8 mi (11:52 / mi) | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1844023
750 points, macro-wise, probably the most efficient way to get 750 points. Added an unnecessary 700m exiting Ravenna Park, as I couldn't tell 100% from the map that you could exit the park due east from #21. My fault. The Nerds had, macro-wise, probably the most efficient way to get 790 points which was 90% the same as ours, just 1.4 km longer (not including the Ravenna mistake). Basically, had we executed the Ravenna exit properly, doing the Nerds route would have only added 700m (with 65m more climb) more than what we actually did. We finished with 4 minutes to spare, and our actual pace was 7.4 min/km, which means that we could have scored 790 (the Nerds route) in 3 hours and 1 minute. Knowing that we were up against the clock, we could have finished in just under 3 hours. 790 was possible with our physical condition had we planned for it (and not made any mistakes). | ||
| C • Wow, 15 miles! Nice job. 2 | ||
Saturday Apr 26 | ||
| Note | |
| I just bought a new GPS toy. They aren't even on shelves yet... I checked at REI yesterday, but I should have one in my hands by the end of the week! | ||
| Orienteering 9:35 [3]*** 1.3 km (7:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| Ran Course #2 that my course-setting classmates designed at Magnuson Park. I forgot to bring my ankle brace, but I took it fairly easy and it wasn't a problem. I was moving well, but I had one big tactical error that cost me 30 seconds (definitely the result of a well-designed leg to force me to that mistake). Also, the super long leg was really interesting. I enjoyed that one. | ||
Thursday Apr 24 | ||
| Note | |
| slept:14.0 (sick) | ||
| I think all of the early morning wake-ups + red-eye flight back to Seattle caught up to me. I woke up this morning feeling all stuffy and fatigued... so I called in sick and went back to bed. Didn't wake up again until 1pm. | ||
Wednesday Apr 23 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| My third week back playing volleyball. I was a bit rusty since I missed last last week. My jump serves were killer again, but I had some accuracy issues. My setting was decent, passing ok. I had some really good hits, but I also screwed up several perfect sets, I think because my timing/footwork is still rusty since the injury.
Matt's spikes were back to awesome again... until he re-injured his shoulder and went back to lefty. Kyle is improving a lot. He's pretty much how I was playing volleyball two years ago.... that's great to see. Sam is solid on everything except her serves, which are still rusty. We won 1 and lost 5. We're getting more competitive against the two good teams, and if we really focus, we should beat the other team more than 50% of the time. | ||
Monday Apr 21 | ||
| Hiking 3:00:00 [1]6.0 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| Flew back to Honolulu late the night before, and we slept in, and then walked around Honolulu. First heading east, past the zoo and out to between Diamond Head and the water, walking along the coast at several times. Then we headed back into town over to Waikiki, where we just walked up and down a few times, and eventually settled for the afternoon. Gina went body boarding, but I was just content to lounge under a palm tree and relax. | ||
Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2]4.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Woke up before the crack of dawn and drove up to the summit again for sunrise (the silver lining in not being able to backpack). Sunrise was really cool... probably should have gotten there 30 minutes earlier for the complete color transformation. Still fun.
Then we drove down and over to the other mountain on Maui and to Iao State Park. Our plan was to hike a trail from the guidebook, one that didn't have any signage or official trailhead. In fact, we had to hop over the railing at the end of the paved trail to start the hike. The trail was well worn, but confusing at times. The guidebook didn't have any maps, so we're unsure that the viewpoint we scrambled up to (using exposed roots as handholds) was the one mentioned in the book. I think we ended up on the ridge to the left, instead. Nonetheless, the effort was worth the view, as we were standing on the top of a hill on a ridge in the middle of this green, jungley valley with jagged, needle-like peaks surrounding us, many of them so high that they went into the low clouds! | ||
| C • After digging around, I think we climbed... 2 | ||
| Hiking 45:00 [1]1.5 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| Back down to the sunny beaches. We parked alongside N Kihei Road, right next to the beach. We walked up the beach until we got to the nature reserve, and walked on some boardwalks for a while, and then back down the beach to where we parked. At the beach there, there were some shade trees, so we sat in the shade and built sand structures, only to have the tide come in and demolish them. | ||
| Other 30:00 [1] | |
| Finally dipped into the ocean for the first (and only) extended period of time at Kamaole Beach Park !, back over on the west coast of the eastern half of Maui. Ahh, that felt good. | ||
Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2]5.0 mi (24:00 / mi) | |
| Got up early, and drove back through the Hana Highway, grabbed a fresh fruit smoothie (mango, papaya, pineapple + honey) at a roadside stand (can it get any better?). Then we drove up to the summit of Haleakala, at 10,023. Wandered around up there for a bit, and then did the hike down the Sliding Sands trail to the Ka Lu'u o ka 'O'o cinder cone, which you stand atop and look down. It was about there that the light rain started, and it sprinkled all the way back the 2.5 miles to the end of the trail.
We definitely weren't prepared for the 10,000 altitude (esp. after spending the night at practically 0). Shortly after arriving to the car (about 5 hours at elevation), we had killer headaches and nausea. We had planned to hike in 4 miles with backpacks, starting at a trailhead at 8000 feet, but we felt so bad, that we drove down to the car campground around 6700 feet and napped in the car, and then pitched the tent and went to bed. | ||
Friday Apr 18 | ||
| Hiking 15:00 [1]0.5 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| Our flight left Honolulu at 5:12am, arrived in Maui by 6:00am. Picked up the rental car and headed out to Hana. Stopped by Hookipa Beach Park and walked along the beach before 7:00am. The only other people there were local surfers. It was brilliant. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1]1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Did a short 1-mile hike in the Keanae Arboretum. Saw lots of non-native tropical plants. We intended to keep going up the trail to the native plants (per the guidebook), but the trail was really overgrown. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1]1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Spent some time wandering around Keanae. Out to the rocks and tidepools, wandering over to the church and cemetery, and down to the end of the dirt road to a surprise blowhole/rock/wave thing. Very sunny out, and the tour buses had finally caught up to us. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1]1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Hiked around Wainanapanapa State Park. We tried to find the pool with the secret underwater passage to a cave with a ledge. We actually thought we found it, but the pool didn't appear to be all that exciting (and slightly stagnant, so we skipped it.) We did hike through the lava tube, which was amazing. We just sat in there for a long, long time, snapping pictures and just enjoying watching the waves crash in there.
Before this park, we'd tried hiking to the Blue Pool just a bit earlier, but when we got there, there was a disclaimer sign saying that it was closed to the public since the trail crossed private property.. liability reasons, I'm sure. Oh, and on that drive, I got yelled at by a young, female jogger who screamed at me to "SLOW DOWN!" when I was going 22 in a 20 mph zone and gave her a whole lane of passing width. | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2]5.0 mi (24:00 / mi) | |
| Finally reached the end of the Hana Highway and kept going a bit further until we got to the Kipahulu area of Haleakala National Park. We pretty much did the extent of the trail system there. It started down near the ocean with seven large pools formed by this cascading stream. Farther up the stream, there was Makahiku Falls, 185 feet tall. Unfortunately, there hadn't been much rainfall, so this wasn't very dramatic. However, we hiked up to the top of it, and there was another large pool there, as well as an amazing view to the ocean, with the valley and preceding stream pools in between.
Also along this trail, we saw our first Lost tree. I should probably know what the name of this tree is, since we saw about a gazillion more in Honolulu... but if you watch Lost, you'll know what we're talking about. Father up the trail, we were completely immersed in a bamboo forest. It was surreal. Absolutely surreal. It was so dense and tall that it made the early evening seem like the sun had already set. Bamboo, and only bamboo, was all you could see. Wow. And then at the end of the trail was Waimaku Falls, at 400 feet or so. Even though the other one was a bit underwhelming, this was was pretty impressive, even with a low water volume. It was just so tall, and over a flat face of lava, too! | ||
| C • That hike was awesome! 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| Note | |
| Met with my orthopedist about my MRI results!
No tendon damage, no cartilage damage! Ligaments are still showing signs of being stretched but are healing nicely! And, good lord, TONS of contusions, fluid build-ups and bone bruises! Yeah! So... I can pretty much be as active as I want to be, and that the pain might better on some days than others, and that the bruises will be around for a few more months (which is what I expected). | ||
Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Note | |
| Softball starts Monday! (and a doubleheader!) (and I haven't thrown a pitch since September!)
Royals-Mariners on Tuesday! (and the Royals are guaranteed to be a winning team!) Dad is in town on Wednesday! Leave to Hawaii on Thursday! | ||
| C • 0 for 2 so far... 3 | ||
| C • 1 for 3 1 | ||
Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Note | |
| Just a few more hours until go time, my first chance at orienteering at race pace in almost 3 months.
It'll be interesting to see how the ankle does... I wonder which ankle brace (I now have four) I should wear. The event will be at night, so my footing won't be as confident as I'd like it to be. | ||
| C • ankle status 1 | ||
| Orienteering race 48:10 [3]*** 2.7 km (17:50 / km) | |
| spiked:11/17c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Ultimate-O #2: Night-O, Lynndale Park
Finally, orienteering at somewhat of a race pace, though 18 min/km is pretty slow. But there are a lot of factors into that slow pace: a big 5+ minute error on #1, it was at night, I was rusty, the course-setter is notorious for hiding controls, and I was running very cautiously because of my ankle. If Eric was the winner, it looks like I'll come out with 700+ points, my highest night-o score so far. Start to #1: Jeebers, big mistake (5+ minutes) to start off. I was rusty... and it was dark... and it took me 40 seconds before I really started moving well... and I was still a bit off in direction. My plan was sound, but the mapping was not, and my attack point (a nub trail at the bend of a large trail) was not there in real life. I back-tracked to the next closest thing, and hunted around, didn't see anything. Hunting, hunting... nothing. Relocated and attacked again. Same result. Sigh. Eventually I found it. (I scoped out this control again after the race... map was definitely crap here. #1 to #2: This was a fairly clean leg, but I hesitate a lot at night because I lose track of my bearings when it's dark. After I'm finished punching, I turn around and I don't have a hunch as to where to go, because I don't see anything. This leg had a lot of log-jumping, which was a good test for my ankle. #2 to #3: Again, clean, but slow. #3 to #4: I was pretty happy with this leg. I quickly lined up my compass, saw some uphill in that direction, and went straight there, not caring about the trails. Worked like a charm. #4 to #5: This is the "Patrick's an idiot and thinks he knows this park pretty well leg." I just wanted to plow down the hill to the open area. But instead of running north... I ran east. When I got to the bottom of the hill, I was still in the woods. I didn't really want to just stand there and figure out what I did, so I re-aimed north, ran up and over a little ridge... and popped out just south of #6. Then it was easy... though Dave putting the center on the wrong side of the rock wall was annoying. I made a stupid mistake, but at least I was moving. #5 to #6: Easy, because I just ran by #6 on the way to #5. #6 to #7: One of the longer legs of the course, and I had to change my route a bit when I realized that the trail I wanted didn't cut through. Lots of trail junctions on this one, but it was still pretty easy. Run up hill, run down hill to junction. Go straight to hill. Turn right, It'll curve easy to the left... keep going until you hit the power line. Now attack! #7 to #8: Got turned around at the control, but once I got my bearings back, this one was pretty easy. #8 to #9: Another long one, with several hesitations over the first 50m to make sure I was taking the correct trails. Then some decent speed for a while. I had trouble attacking, as the nub trail didn't seem to be mapped correctly, and the re-entrant's location relative to the trail junction seemed off. It might have been correct and I was just distracted by all of the people near the control that weren't actually at the contol. #9 to #10: Pretty short, quick, and easy leg. #10 to #11: I didn't notice that #11 was on the front side of the map, so I flipped it over, and #11 was there also. However, I made the mistake of navigating to (and punching) #17, which was about 50m away. It was kinda on the way, but I lost probably a minute. #11 to #12: I think I back-tracked my way to #17, and then exited to the paved path, around to the curve, and to the control, which should be right there, 20m from the path. I'd visited Vampire-O controls here before, so I knew exactly where it was... but I didn't, because I had to hunt and peck my way to the control. #12 to #13: Pretty quick start to the leg, and then I tried to hack my way down this hill with undergrowth... and I feel a few times. Not pleasant. I remember that I was nervous on this leg because I didn't see anyone, and I was expecting vampires to run out and bite me. #13 to #14: I could have stayed high and run along the ridge, but I figured that it would be faster and easier to run low by the playground. IT worked out ok. I wonder what my time would have been otherwise. #14 to #15: Again, another route choice and I took a safe option. Fast though the open area, and then along the fence right to the control. Heading straight at it would have been a lot shorter, and the woods were white, and there was a small hill to the right I could have used.... I think I just wanted to find it as easy as possible, without hunting around. I was tired of hunting around for Dave's controls at this point in the course... #15 to #16: I got 95% of the way there really fast... and spent a lot of time hunting for it again. #16 to #17: I overran a bit on the trail. The ampitheater came a lot quicker than I was expecting. #17 to F: Not much of a sprint here, as my ankle doesn't really allow for much sprinting. Eric finished in 34-something. If you take away our mistakes on #1, I was only 9 minutes back of him from #1 to the finish. Peteris finished in 48-something, we didn't chat much about what happened. Scott finished in 53-something, but he left before I finished. Tyler was in 59-something, Nick & Angela in 1:30:xx, and Mike way behind them (maybe a DNF?). I saw Jon Church, Targo, the Bresemans, and Matej there.. no idea how those guys did. According to Gina, Scott seemed to really enjoy the course, which is good since it was frustrating at times for me. I still think Scott has a lot of potential in this sport. He's fast, and he's pretty smart, and he's 3+ years younger than me. | ||
| C • you know it's a tough course when... 1 | ||
Friday Apr 11 | ||
| Note | |
| I keep a chart of my and Gina's overtime since Gina started working in January 2007. This past pay period (two weeks) was the first time that we both logged at least 100 hours in a pay period, at the same time. | ||
Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Geez, I never knew that MRI machines were so loud. It sounded like a cross between the loudest (digital) alarm clock in the world, the day that that hatch imploded and the sky turned purple on Lost and the backbeat to that Nike "my better is better than your better" commercial that aired incessantly throughout the NCAA tourney. | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| Note | |
| MRI tomorrow!
I went to the doctor today, and he thinks that all of my ligaments/tendons are doing really well. But we both want to get to the bottom of the lingering swelling issues and pain, and he wants to take a look at the joint from a bone/cartilage perspective. It could be a contusion or something. That's what the MRI is for. I'm hoping that it's something that will just take some time and that's it. MRI tomorrow, analysis next Wednesday! | ||
| Note | |
| REACH t-shirt design is final (finally). ~20 shirts will be ordered tomorrow morning. (Green and orange were popular colors this year.)
Street Scramble t-shirt design is getting closer to final. Speaking of Scrambles... trying to get Scott to run with me at U-District, since Gina and Nick will both be out of town. Nick and I haven't Scrambled together in almost two years! For shame! | ||
| C • update 1 | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| Note | |
| When was the last time it was outside the temperature range of 30-60 degrees here? | ||
| C • I looked it up and... 9 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| Everett Co-Ed Volleyball, Week #2.
We're getting much better as a team, and we won one game out of six. I seemed to be jumping a lot higher this week, and I even brought back my jump serve, which led to three service errors, but also about seven or eight service points. My hitting also improved a lot. I still hit a few into the net, but I had a lot of really hard spikes. I still have the uncanny ability to spike it right at people, so they can dig them with ease. I can hit with more power these days, but I really can't aim them very well (the same can be said for my serve, and even going back to high school, my tennis serve). The ankle did pretty well, except for one collision with Gina after a loose ball. And that pain was only because the ankle was over-compressed. The one thing that really limits me is diving. I have a hard time diving forward for a dig with my ankle, because it's hard to spring forward without compressing my ankle. What happens is that my body reacts, but doesn't go anywhere, and the ball lands, and then I move. I'm about a step too slow. I feel like my overall playing condition is at around 90% or so... maybe higher. We'll see how orienteering goes on Saturday night. | ||
Monday Apr 7 | ||
| Note | |
| 3 hours until game time.
I was calm up until I got out of my 2pm meeting and I had nothing else to look forward to at work. Now I'm jittery. At least we got through Holly's team Saturday. I don't know anyone that went to (or will go to) school at Memphis. Saturday night was a lot of fun. As soon as the game ended, I went over to the Hops & Props event, with 2500 people in attendance. I was wearing both my KU ballcap and "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" shirt, since I'm a KU basketball > beer person. At least 70 people asked me how the game turned out, since you know, they are beer > basketball people and arrived at 7pm. The best part was when another guy about my age, and wearing a "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" sweatshirt came up to me. He just said "dude" and he gave me a huge hug. Best part of the night. | ||
| C • Nervousness journal 7 | ||
| Note | |
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! | ||
Saturday Apr 5 | ||
| Note | |
| today is going to be a very interesting day.
work until 2:50pm drive home watch UCLA-Memphis shower/shave watch first half of KU-UNC drive to work watch second half of KU-UNC on my work computer drive 1.3 miles to Museum of Flight for Hops & Props '08 drink beer until 10pm there are some potential issues. Hops & Props is from 7-10pm. The KU game won't tip off until 5:47pm at the earliest. Meaning that the game won't end before 8:00pm. But if either game runs long, there just might not be much beer drinking time at all. watching KU basketball > $50 beer drinking event (bought my ticket months ago) And no, the game will not be shown at the event. I'll either be drinking in celebration... or drinking in sorrow. | ||
| C • nervous... 12 | ||
Thursday Apr 3 | ||
| Physical Therapy 2:00:00 [2] | |
| Same old, same old.
The showdown was very close, actually, and I wish I would have been able to give it a better effort. Andy beat me 1233 to 1205. I wasn't feeling so hot today with allergies (?), which made my sinuses and throat irritated while breathing hard. I got a 1204 today, 1 foot short of my previous best. I was at a 1225-1250 pace for the first 4 minutes... probably should have pushed harder early when my breathing was still good. Minutes 7-8:30 were really rough... I had to stop for a few seconds a couple of times, I managed to get it together and pull down a pretty decent final minute, though. Normally, when I'm done, my legs feel like jell-o. But today, they were fine, but I was breathing heavy. I felt like I had more left in the tank at the end. I probably could have thrown in an extra 50 feet over the first 6 minutes without much trouble, and finished in the 1235-1250 range. This was my last session of the prescribed 6 weeks. The PT said that he write a note to the doctor (who I see next week) about my progress. I might keep going back once a week or so (my insurance covers up to three months) if the doctor and PT think it's worthwhile. Personally, I don't need the exercise drills. I can do a bunch of those on my own. However, the best parts of PT are the massages, ultrasound, and electro-stimulation... things I can't do myself. We'll see how it goes. | ||
Wednesday Apr 2 | ||
| Note | |
| I'm kinda bummed out about my ankle today. | ||
| C • Sorry to hear that 2 | ||
| Note | |
| I love AP for things like this...
The big showdown on the Infinite Ladder of Death is tomorrow, and I went through my log to dig up my progress, along with my competition: date ___ me ________ andy 3/31: 1205 feet ____ ?? 3/27: 1138 feet ____ 1159 feet 3/24: 1096 feet ____ 1032 feet 3/19: 1063 feet ____ 0935 feet 3/17: 1015 feet ____ 0963 feet 3/10: 0800 feet ____ ?? I've now spent one hour on this thing, climbing 6317 feet. If only there were a ladder that went from Paradise Visitor Center to the top of Rainier, I could summit in less than 90 minutes. | ||
Tuesday Apr 1 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| Spring League volleyball started tonight, so I decided to give it a go. I wore braces on both ankles, and away I went. It was a bit stiff at first, but it worked out really well. In fact, my right shoulder is more sore than my ankle seems to be!
We lost all 6 games. There are only 4 teams in the league this season, 2 of them super good, and the other is a usual cellar-dweller... but, they restocked with two really good hitters, so we'll have to work hard to win games this season. We'll get better. We have a new girl, and she's pretty solid on passing/setting, and our newbie guy isn't a huge liability... he just can't attack well yet. We've all been at that stage. I was really rusty with my spikes. I only got a few really good ones in. Most of them went into the net. I was getting solid contact on them, so it seems like my timing was off with the jumps. It also felt like I was missing about 3" off my vertical leaping. I don't know how much of that is true, but it just seems like I can't jump very high right now. Blocking was ok... I was really nervous to block because that's what I was doing when I got the injury. I had a few decent blocks, but none that were the fun stuff 'em variety because I think I was too far back from the net or perhaps I wasn't jumping as high to roof them back. Didn't do a lot of sets, but I did a fair amount of passing, and I wasn't too bad at that. The best part of my game was definitely the serving. I decided to do my jump serve motion, without jumping, and I got every single one of my serves in! I had really good placement, too. I think I may stick with this service motion, since I was consistent. Not as much power, but so much more consistent. | ||